Question regarding printing from preview

rbuser

Is it possible to have the report image saved when doing the preview so that
if a user asks for a print directly from preview it does not have to
recreate the report. This is important when a summary report is printed on
large amounts of data.

It is also important as i use some report variables in rap code which do not
get reset properly and hence all my numbers can get duplicated.

Regards Tony Wood
Turnkey Computer Technology Ltd
Glasgow

rbuser

> Is it possible to have the report image saved when doing the preview so
that
on


You could print to an archive format and then preview that, and/or send it
to the printer. There will be a larger time though.

HTH,
Ed Dressel
Team DM

rbuser

Most of the other report writers i have used cache the results of the report
when previewing so that it does not need to recalculate everything if the
user asks for a print.

I have been caught out recently when creating reports with normal variables
calculated at runtime, when the report is either printed from preview or the
user scans through pages back and forth the variables are continually
updating.

Surely caching of the pages would be a good option to add to report bbuilder
if it is not already there.

Tony

digitalmetaphors

There is a Report.CachePages property, which will cause the pages to be
cached from the preview, so that the pages will not be regenerated when the
report is subsequently sent to the printer.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors

rbuser

This does not seem to be working as you say.

I have a simple report that previews and if you hit the ssend to printer
button it is definitley regenrating the pages regardless of the cache pages
setting.

Have you got an example you could send me?

Thanks Tony

digitalmetaphors

Is the Report.PassSetting set to psOnePass? If the pages aren't previewed
in the viewer, they they aren't generated. You should set the PassSetting
to psTwopass and the report will generate all of the pages in the first pass
when the previewer shows the first page. The second pass happens as the
previewer scrolls through the pages or they are sent to the printer. All of
the pages that are previewed in the second pass will be cached and sent
directly to the printer and should not be regenerated.


Cheers,

Jim Bennett
Digital Metaphors